Detailed Programme

09:30 - 10:30 Opening WITH

• Consigliere Paolo Vigevano
  • (Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Italian Minister for Innovation Technologies)
• Prof. Augusto Marinelli
  • (Magnifico Rettore Universita' degli Studi di Firenze)
• Dr. Enrico Bocci
  • (responsible for the Presidence of Assindustria Firenze for the Information Techologies)
• Prof. Paolo Nesi
  • (Coordinator of AXMEDIS, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, DSI, DISIT)

11:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speaker

• Balancing Protection of Intellectual Property and its Use
  Leonardo Chiariglione, CEDEO (I), ( www.chiariglione.org )

• A Mix-Down Assistant Interface with Reuse of Examples
  Haruhiro Katayose, Akio Yatsui, and Masataka Goto
  
• AXMEDIS Tool Core for MPEG-21 Authoring/Playing
  Piefrancesco Bellini, Paolo Nesi, Davide Rogai, and Andrea Vallotti

• MXDemo: a Case Study about Audio, Video, and Score Synchronization
  Adriano Baratè, Goffredo Haus, Luca Andrea Ludovico, and Giancarlo Vercellesi
  
• Producing Music with N - Delta Interfaces
  Dimitrios Margounakis, and Dionysios Politis
  
• Real-time Synthesis and Transformation of Ambient Sounds
  Daniel Dobler
  
• Estimating Quality of Playlists by Sight
  Andreja Andric, and Goffredo Haus

• New Stream Caching Schemas for Multimedia Systems
  Javier Fernandez, Jesús Carretero, Felix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón, and Jose Maria Perez
  
• StreamOnTheFly: a Peer-to-peer Network for Radio Stations and podCasters
  Roland Alton-Scheidl, András Micsik, Máté Pataki, Wolfgang Reutz, Jürgen Schmidt, and Thomas Thurner
  
• Innovative Applications for Content Distribution & Consumption in Tourism & Education using PDA or Mobiles
  David Luigi Fuschi, Giancarlo Bo, and Yuval Saadia
  
• Workflow Data Exchange Semantics, Object Discovery & Integration Architecture for Cross Media Production & Distribution
  Atta Badii, Maulik Sailor, Claudio Marangoni, Alessandra Neglia, and Laurence Pearce

• Managing Intellectual Property Rights in the WWW: Patterns and Semantics
  Rosa Gil, Rubén Tous, and Jaime Delgado
  
• Doc@Hand: Information and Knowledge Natural Language Ontology-driven Access Through Web Services in the Healthcare Domain,
  Mikhail Simonov, Luca Sammartino, Massimo Ancona, Sonia Pini, Walter Cazzola, and Marco Frascio

• Use of Standards for Implementing a Multimedia Information Protection and Management System
  Víctor Torres, Eva Rodríguez, Silvia Llorente, and Jaime Delgado
  
• Efficient Delivery within the MPEG-21 Framework
  Stephen Davis and Ian Burnett
  
• Performance Profile for an Embedded Java OMA DRM 2 Agent
  Daniel Thull
  
• MPEG-7 and the Semantic Web: An Hybrid Approach for Semantic and Behavioral Descriptions in Interactive Object-Oriented Multimedia Applications
  Yannick Naudet, Damien Mathevon, and Alain Vagner

• An Archive of Multimedia Objects on-Line Using WEDELMUSIC: the Experience of Arcipelago Music Study Center
  Roberto Lonoce, Arcipelago Musica, Milan, Italy
  
• European Projects for Art Schools: The MultimediArt Project
  Elisabetta Delle Donne, PIXEL
  
• New services for the public in a technology-related approach: the AXMEDIS project inside Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
  Annalisa Bini, Roberto Grisley, Tiziana dell’Orto (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia)
  
• European Projects for Art Schools: The Art-Net project
  Elisabetta Delle Donne, PIXEL

• On Multicast Fingerprinting and Collusion Security
  Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Francesc Sebé, and Antoni Martínez-Ballesté
  
• Interoperability Between Different Rights Expression Languages and Protection Mechanisms
  Jose Prados, Eva Rodriguez, and Jaime Delgado

• AXMEDIS Architecture and benefits
• why AXMEDIS is useful for your business
• why AXMEDIS is useful for your research
• solution for content production, processing protection and distribution
  
  Tutors: Paolo Nesi (DSI-DISIT, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy); Domenico Dato (TISCALI, Italy)

Technical aim: P. Nesi (DSI-DISIT Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Administrative and Procedure: F. Malloggi andC. Giachetti, (Strategica, Italy)

The AXMEDIS call for take-up actions will be performed to set up sub-projects in order to stimulate the technology transfer and the adoption of the AXMEDIS infrastructure and components to set up new services and/or build up new products (http://www.axmedis.org ).

Each take-up has to provide detailed information in the submitted proposal at the call to explain how the results will be capable of creating a sustainable business activity. Each take up will have a maximum of funding of about 250-370 Keuro for 12-18 months of activity.

The fomal DRAFT call will be issued at the conference with all the informtive material.

The final call will be issued in January February 2006.

This Panel aims to present the current collecting societies' projects and strategies towards digital rights management systems and to explore the impact of new digital deliveries on collective licensing. Thanks to the presence of high-profile experts representing collecting societies of different categories of right holders the workshop will allow addressing the topics of collective management's issues, policies and aspects from several perspectives. Particular attention will be given to the new services and technological tools developed by collecting societies and to the main legal and practical issues related to the licensing of rights in the domain of cross media content.

• Welcome and introduction – Isabella Longo AFI Int'l Coordinator
• DRM: approach from the Authors' Collecting Societies - Marc Gauvin, SDAE International Relations (Spain)
• Artists rights management: from SIREX project to the DRM – Maila Sansaini General Manager IMAIE (Italy)
• Producers rights collective management perspective – Dominic McGonigal Director, Government Relations PPL (Phonographic Performace Limited, UK)
• The FastTrack network : overview and aims – Antonio Brunetti SIAE (Italy)
• Questions and discussion

• Isabella Longo, AFI - International coordinator of AFI Italian Association of Phonographic Producers

• Isabella Longo, AFI - International coordinator of AFI Italian Association of Phonographic Producers
• Marc Gauvin, SdAE. SDAE Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores, S.L. (sDae), Spain
• Maila Sansaini, IMAIE. General Manager of I.M.A.I.E. (Italian Performers and Artists Rights Organization),
• Dominic McGonigal, (Phonographic Performace Limited, UK)
• Antonio Brunetti, SIAE (Società Italiana Autori ed Editori)

• Semantic Audio Hyperlinking: a Multimedia-Semantic Web scenario
  Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, Paolo Puliti, and Francesco Piazza
  
• The LOA Customizable Media Aggregator
  Giuseppe Attardi, Andrea Carboni, Emanuela Del Dottore, and Paola Di Marcello
  
• An Architecture of Automating Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution
  Pierfrancesco Bellini and Paolo Nesi
  
• A Distributed Environment for Automatic Multimedia Content Production based on GRID
  Pierfrancesco Bellini, Ivan Bruno, and Paolo Nesi

• A Music Recommendation System Based on Annotations about Listeners' Preferences and Situations
  Katsuhiko Kaji, Keiji Hirata, and Katashi Nagao
  
• Weblog-style Video Annotation and Syndication
  Daisuke Yamamoto, Shigeki Ohira, and Katashi Nagao
  
• Experimental Validation of a Service Oriented Network Architecture Applied to Global Grid Computing
  Barbara Martini, Fabio Baroncelli, Piero Castoldi, and Angelica Aprigliano
  
• AXMEDIS Framework for Programme and Publication and On-Demand Production
  Kia Ng, Bee Ong, Royce Neagle, Peter Ebinger, Martin Schmucker, Ivan Bruno, and Paolo Nesi

• MPEG Standards Enabling Universal Multimedia Access
  
  Tutors: Christian Timmerer and Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Department of Information Technology (ITEC)

• Identifying and Defining Customer Orientated Best Practice Business Models within a Cross Media Environment – The INCCOM Project.
  Juha Vallanen, Kritina Modee, Finpro Munich, Lisa K. Brown
  
• Focuseek searchbox for digital content gathering
  Nicola Baldini, PSION soft
  
• Jackson: DJ Software Powered by Musical Metadata
  Francis Van Aeken
  
• Multimedia Content Management and Streaming Services Platform
  Alberto Canadé, Datamat Spa

• Peer-to-Peer Internet Television
  Peter Hulsen, Eric Vlemmix, and Keith Baker
  
• A Visual Interface for Conducting Digitally Stored Music – A Proposal
  Reinhold Behringer
  
• A Protected Digital Item Declaration Language for MPEG-21
  Shane Lauf and Ian Burnett
  
• Object Life Cycles & Interaction Environments for Cross Media Production & Distribution
  Atta Badii, Maulik Sailor, Claudio Marangoni, Alessandra Neglia, and Laurence Pearce
  
• RADAMES A New Management Approach to Opera: Repertory, Archives and Related Documents
  Angelo Pompilio, Lorenzo Bianconi, Fabio Regazzi, and Paolo Bonora
  
• BeLearning: Accessibility in Virtual Knowledge Spaces for Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  Nina Dahlmann, Sabina Jeschke, Ruedi Seiler, and Helmut Vieritz
  
• The INTRINSIC Project: Helping Regional Identity Products Thrive in the Internet Age
  Salvatore Lusso, Flavio Tariffi, and Paolo Alongi
  
• SCALEX - Personalized Adaptive Multimedia Information System for Museums and Exhibitions
  Jochen Martin

• Content Model, AXMEDIS model,
• GRID production and processign of content,
• massive protection of content, production on demand, etc.
  
  Tutors: Piero Bellini, Ivan Bruno, DSI-DISIT, Università di Firenze, Italy; Jaime Delgado, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain

• MPEG Symbolic Music Representation, history and facts
  P. Bellini (DSI, Italy), M. Campanai (EXITECH, Italy), P. Nesi (DSI), G. Zoia (EPFL, CH)
  
• Accessible Symbolic Music Representations
  David Crombie, Roger Lenoir, Neil McKenzie (FNB, The Netherlands)
  
• Meaningful mapping: Appreciating music through accessible structures
  David Crombie, Roger Lenoir, Neil McKenzie, (FNB, The Netherlands)
  
• MPEG Symbolic Music Representation and Music Education Software
  Tillman Weide (City University London, UK)
  
• The Symbolic Music Representation of Traditional Korean Music
  Yong-Soo CHOI, Hyoung-Joong KIM (Kangwon National University, Korea)
  
• Integrating music representations within MPEG environments
  David Crombie, Roger Lenoir, Neil McKenzie (FNB, The Netherlands)

• mReplay: Mobile Sports Replay and Fan Democracy
  Patrick F. Riley (University of California, Berkeley, US), Erich Schubert (University of Munich, Germany)
  
• Digital Items: Event Reporting Integration with Company Business Models
  Fabrizio Fioravanti, Marius Spinu, Maurizio Campanai, Exitech, Italy
  
• Keeping Control of Online Assets Using Windows Media DRM 10
  Duncan Burbidge, Stream UK Media Services Limited, UK

This session will consist of presentations from several European  Accessible Information Network (EUAIN) speakers from the publishing  and accessibility communities. The EUAIN network was established to  provide a focal point for activities relating to accessible  information processing. The main areas covered are: encouraging  accessible information processing in multimedia environments; helping  publishers and content creators to build accessibility into their  production processes; establishing guidelines and standards for all  stakeholders by mainstreaming accessibility; and building sustainable scenarios for co-operation.

• Open Source and Open Standards as tools for accessibility
  David Crombie, Roger Lenoir, Benoit Guillon, Neil McKenzie, (FNB, The Netherlands)
  
• EUAIN Overview
  David Crombie, Roger Lenoir, Neil McKenzie, (FNB, The Netherlands)
  
• Managing electronic content for adaptation to the reader’s profile: project MultiAbile for the inclusion of e-Learners with disabilities
  Thimoty Barbieri, Antonio Bianchi, Licia Sbattella, Ferdinando Carella, Marco Ferra, Piergiovanni Santini
  
• Indexing tools and methods for making multimedia content accessible
  Mirko Horstmann, George T. Ioannidis, Martin Lorenz (Universitaet Bremen, Germany), Konstantina N. Geramani (TWT GmbH, Germany)

• Market Potential for Interactive Audio-Visual Media
  Andra Leurdijk and Sander Limonard
  
• Agent-based Simulation for Modelling the Distribution of Online Music
  Stephan Schuster and Nigel Gilbert
  
• Gaming or Sharing at LAN-Parties — What is going on?
  Marc Fetscherin, Charis Kaskiris, and Fredrik Wallenberg
  
• Bringing Music Industry into the Interactive Multimedia Age
  David Crombie, David Fuschi, Nicola Mitolo, Paolo Nesi, Kia Ng, and Bee Ong

• Keyword Extraction in Open-Domain Multilingual Textual Resources
  Alessandro Panunzi, Marco Fabbri, and Massimo Moneglia
  
• Cross Media Digital Rights Management for Online Music Stores
  Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Javier Barria, Tobias Regner, and Jeremy Pitt
  
• Watermark: From Paper Texture to Digital Media
  Hazem Hiary and Kia Ng

• Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound: fostering the sound and music reasearch community toward a common research roadmap
  Nicola Bernardini, Damien Cirotteau

• Designing Peer-to-Peer Systems for Business-to-Business Environments
  Davide Carboni, Massimo Deriu, Cristian Lai, and Antonio Pintus
  
• BitTorrent in a Dynamic Resource Adapting Peer-to-Peer Network
  Letian Rong and Ian Burnett

• The Future of a Service-Focused Recorded Music Industry
  Stephen Graham Saunders
  
• An economic analysis of music download platforms
  Andreas Will
  
• The Value of Metadata in the Digital Music Industry
  Markus Cremer, Peter DiMaria
  
• Privacy for Digital Rights Management Products and their Business Cases
  Rüdiger Grimm
  
• iRights.info: The need for reliable and trustworthy consumer information after copyright revision in Germany
  Matthias Spielkamp
  
• Justice Psychology meets Digital Rights Dilemma
  Nicola Döring, Franziska Fellenberg
  
• Automatic Image Theft Detection in eBay by Digital Watermarking
  Martin Steinebach, Ellen Kremer, Lucilla Croce Ferri
  
• Multi-Level Markets for Virtual Goods
  Andreas U. Schmidt
  
• Alternative Distribution Models based on P2P
  Martin Schmucker, Peter Ebinger
  
• An Incentive Based Distribution System for DRM Protected Content Using Peer-to-Peer Networks
  Hariharan Rajasekaran
  
• Business models for location based access to cultural heritage
  L.-F. Pau, B. Rees

• Content distirbution and protection
• Exploiting AXMEDIS framework for your distribution chain
• Content Distribution towards PC via Internet
• Content Distribution by using satellite data broadcast
• Content Distribution towards PDA via Kiosk, for museums, cinemas, disco, events, theathres, etc.

• Tutorial on user-centred product creation
  Elke-Maria Melchior (ACIT, Germany)

In collaboration with the MUSCINETWORK International Association

• Review of Reference Model 0 of the MPEG SMR
  Core Experiment on Braille and Spoken Music
  Core Experiment on Korean Music

President: Kia Ng

The International Association of Interactive Multimedia MUSICNETWORK is a non-profit organization of public utility with the aim to continue the work started by the MUSICNETWORK project funded by the European Commission in the period 2002-2005.
The MUSICNETWORK Association aims at promoting scientific and didactical development in the field of music, by providing services and contributions in developing and releasing suitable data processing media and tools for the music, in order to protect, promote and exploit better the cultural and artistic heritage related to the music.
The MUSICNETWORK Association considers scientific research and education as one of its main purposes; for such reasons, activities of training, testing new didactical methods, book publishing and conference organization will be carried out.

1st December , 2005 - 20:00 Social Dinner
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The Castle of Cafaggiolo is 25 km north of Florence in the Mugello, where the Medici family originated. The address is: Via Nazionale 16 - Barberino del Mugello (Florence).

The castle is:
28 km from FlorenceAirport
25 km from Florence Railway Station "Santa Maria Novella"
7 km from Motorway A1 exit "Barberino del Mugello"
25 km from Florence city center

How to reach the castle from Florence

There are two ways:
- one, by leaving the motorway A1 at exit Barberino del Mugello, go on following the directions to Borgo S. Lorenzo;
- second way, by taking Via Bolognese from Piazza della Libertà in Florence, in direction of Pratolino, then at the crossroads at S. Pietro a Sieve follow the direction to Barberino Mugello